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reparations are underway for an anti-vaccine-mandate protest at the National Mall in Washington, but citizens across Europe and Down Under have been holding mass demonstrations for some time now, including over the holiday weekend. The march in Washington on Jan. 23 will begin at 11:30 a.m. at the Washington Monument and conclude at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, about one mile away. Called Defeat the Mandate DC, it's organized by The Unity Project, Children's Health Defense and the International Alliance of Physicians and Medical Scientists. "The mandates are un-American. Stop the mass firings. Stop segregating by vaccination status. Stop...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemJeremiah 32Jeremiah Buys a Field 32 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. 2 The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace of Judah. 3 Now Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him there, saying, “Why do you prophesy as you do? You say, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am about to give this...

The purveyors of panic porn are doubling down on theatrical displays of "social distancing." .. we are once again being presented with the public figures pretending to keep several feet away from each other. I use the word "pretending" because when they think the cameras are no longer rolling, they forget about the social distancing. One such blatant case was illustrated yesterday by Erin Andrews interviewing Aaron Rodgers, standing almost at shouting distance: ... But when they thought the cameras were turned off, they hugged: Holds socially distanced interview*. *Hugs immediately after interview*. Makes sense.

READING, Pa.—Joseph Nuñez at first didn’t like Donald Trump. “I couldn’t stand the guy. I didn’t like the way he spoke about Hispanics or people in general,” he said. But by 2020, Mr. Nuñez had become a fan of Mr. Trump’s style and priorities, and he voted in favor of giving the president a second term. So did many other Latino voters in this working-class city who had once backed Democrats or, like Mr. Nuñez, had skipped elections altogether. Now, as political strategists continue to sift through the 2020 election results, the emergence of these newly Republican voters is setting...

When running against Donald Trump for president, Joe Biden often made the now-ironic charge that any president who has allowed so many deaths from COVID-19 should never be in the White House. Today, there are more deaths from COVID under Biden than under Trump -- and that is even with the vaccine. But it isn't just on health issues that Trump's presidency is looking so much better and competent in hindsight. Everywhere I go these days, people come up to me and say something like this: "I didn't like some of the things Trump said or the way he acted,...

Current market conditions, political pressures, and environmental compliance burdens have greatly reduced the amount of power that coal-fired plants produce annually. However, the greatest impact on coal-fired plants has been the resurgence of the American natural gas market, thus providing an abundant and cheap source of a cleaner-burning fuel. Couple this with the growing impact of renewable energy resources, such as wind and solar power, and it’s easy to understand why many coal-fired plants are struggling to stay in operation. The survival of coal-fired power plants demands that managers adapt and reinvent their industry. Units must be able to provide...

Instead, it’s the people’s cry about the failure of an entire administration. In a recent Salon article, Matthew Rozsa attempted to fold “Let’s go, Brandon,” into the long history of “insulting presidential nicknames.” Aside from telling the risible falsehood that NBC’s Kelli Stavast mistook a NASCAR’s quite clear chant of “F*** Joe Biden” for “Let’s Go, Brandon,” Rozsa would have us believe that this is just another derogatory insult directed solely at the president, irrespective of what he stood for. That seriously underestimates the broad reach of that slogan, born from a desperately unhappy year for Americans. In fact, “Let’s...

A QAnon conspiracy theorist from California who confessed to killing his two young children with a spearfishing gun in Mexico because they inherited “serpent DNA” from his wife has reportedly written a letter from jail begging for forgiveness. Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, of Santa Barbara, told federal investigators after being arrested at the border in August that he killed his 10-month-old daughter and 2-year-old son because they “were going to grow into monsters.” The surf school owner left his home without a car seat for the infant and took them to Rosarito, according to an FBI affidavit. He allegedly shot...

As this is my last column of 2021, I thought it would be worthwhile to review some of the most important observations I made over the course of an awful year. I hope you agree, and wish you -- and our country -- a happier New Year. JAN. 5: These past few years have taught me not to so quickly judge the quiet Germans, Russians, etc. Of course, I still judge Germans who helped the Nazis and Germans who in any way hurt Jews. But the Germans who did nothing? Not so fast. What has changed my thinking has been...

Central Michigan will now play Washington State in the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl on Friday, a move that allows both teams to play in a bowl game.Both teams lost opponents to COVID-19 issues. Miami withdrew from the Sun Bowl on Sunday, sending the bowl scrambling for an opponent for the Cougars. That spot was filled by the Chippewas after their scheduled opponent, Boise State, withdrew from the Barstool Arizona Bowl on Monday.

Tiangong, China's new space station, had to maneuver to avoid colliding with one Starlink satellite in July and with another in October, according to a note submitted by Beijing to the United Nations space agency this month...The note said the incidents "constituted dangers to the life or health of astronauts aboard the China Space Station."

Liberalism ruins everything, it really does. Think of something rotting with leftist smug and think about how it used to be, there’s no comparison. Movies used to be good, used to be interested in entertaining the audience. Now they beat you about the head and neck with some left-wing message, making the whole experience less appealing than self-dentistry (try watching “Don’t Look Up,” “Being the Riccardos,” or the new Matrix movie). Music isn’t about being good at writing and recording songs anymore, it’s about crap computer generated sounds, only semi-literate lyrics (emphasis on the “semi” part), and pandering to various...

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Until Omicron came along, the official response to Covid served as an instrument of class warfare against blue collar workers and small businesses, on behalf of the tech oligopolists and selected big businesses such as Target, which were deemed “essential.” Not coincidentally, blue collar workers and small businesses are the core of the GOP base, while Silicon Valley and the plutocracy are the cash cows and power base of the Democrats. But the Omicron Variant has – at least for now – turned that class dynamic on its head. Writing for the Brownstone Institute, Jeffrey A. Tucker explains: The initial...

Blah, blah, blah. (Sorry anyone who really believes this, can click on the link) Waiting for a Chinese version. Really.

Wuhan Flu COVID-19, Beta Variant, Delta Variant, Lambda Variant, Mu Variant, Omicron Variant…had enough yet? They just keep coming. And now “experts” are warning that a massive bird flu outbreak could be 2022’s deadly pandemic. Yes, scientists are now saying that a significant outbreak of bird flu in Israel’s Galilee could become a “mass disaster” for human beings, a global emergency. Though most strains of avian flu (H5N1) are not easily transmitted to people, the World Health Organization says the virus is deadly to those it does infect, killing over half of those who contract it. Israeli ornithologist Yossi Leshem...

There's an accident in the Oval Office. Not the kind of accident left on the rug in front of the Resolute Desk on a regular basis by the untrained, rowdy dogs the Biden's sicced on the unwitting White House staff and Secret Service. I'm talking about the man who sits behind the resolute desk for his daily naps. Joe Biden is the accidental president. He is the result of an accident of American politics. His presidency will not be remembered with an asterisk, as my friend and fellow Townhall columnist Kurt Schlichter would say. No, it will be remembered... reviled......

The House of Representatives has passed a bill which seeks to eradicate blasphemy against Islam. The bill, H.R. 5665, is truly remarkable as it amounts to Congress making a law respecting the establishment of Islam and reducing the United States government into a tool of the world’s ayatollahs. The actual text of the bill not only seeks to eradicate blasphemy against Islam around the world – and solely against Islam at that – but even requires the federal government to reorganize some portions of the State Department along the lines of an Islamic religious institution which will be responsible for...

I'm signed up with a worldwide questions-and-answers board named Quora, which sends me daily digests of its content in the categories I've chosen: history, culture, and languages. Most of the time, the posts are informative and a pleasure to read, but once in a while, they seem to be designed by trolls with an agenda to sow discord in society, just like what the active measures were designed to do in the pre-internet era. That pretty much describes today's social media anyway — one has to take it or leave it. Today's digest contained just such a leading question with...

Late last week I wrote a nice moderate blog post on education, that included a roster of all the brilliant minds that have held forth on education from Aristotle to Mr. “Common School” Horace Mann to our own beloved Bill Gates. The very next day Curtis Yarvin wrote a similarly moderate post on his Gray Mirror Substack about “Retiring the university.” Said he: To a substantial extent, America is the university. A nation is its government; and America’s government is its university system. Sorry if this comes as news to you.If we are going to have regime change, he writes,...